HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. — All you needed to know about how the women's short programs went Saturday at Skate America was evident in the mixed reactions of several skaters when they had finished. As Russia's Elizaveta Tukhtamysheva sat in the "Kiss and Cry" area, waiting with a smile for the scores, her coach, Alexei Mishin, raised Tukhtamysheva's arm as if he were a referee signaling the winner of a boxing match. As U.S. champion Gracie Gold sat there 10 minutes later, watching a replay of key moments in her performance, she covered her face with the collar of her warm-up jacket in mock embarrassment over a bungled final spin. That botch had left her coach,...

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